Related link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/05/18/ds2.html I’ve been getting lots of mail about my enthusiastic review of the Olympus DS-2 stereo voice recorder. Several readers wondered what I thought of the WS-200S, a smaller, higher-capacity model that came out shortly after I finished the review. Well, because I really liked the DS-2 but found it a tad too big for my (admittedly overcrowded)...

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This Thursday, “Sosumi” mastermind Jim Reekes will meet Deep Fried, Live! sound designer Dave O’Neal—and you can be there.

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People often liken my new book to a party; that analogy came to life this week when contributors Stewart Copeland (the Police), Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2, Frank Zappa), Albhy Galuten (18 #1 hits), and many more Cool People dropped by Digital Hollywood to help launch it.

What if the top recording and music-technology magazines decided to put hundreds of their past articles online for free—and then someone made a directory? You’d get this amazing site.